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Dr. Raoul Hille has been the sole Managing Director of Hannover Airport since March 2004.

In addition to his work as Managing Director of the airport, Dr. Hille is also a member of the Industrieclub Hannover Council of Elders and a lecturer at the Leibniz University of Hannover.

Born in Bremen, Dr. Hille studied Industrial Engineering and obtained a doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) before he began his professional career with Deutsche Lufthansa’s Strategic Group Development division in Cologne in 1989. Within the group, he took over a project company in Frankfurt in 1991 before becoming General Director of the "Joint Venture Airport Moskau" in 1993.

In 1994, Dr. Hille was appointed Lufthansa Regional Director for Western Germany – a position based in Düsseldorf. From there, he moved to Frankfurt when in 1997 he took on the position of Head of Group Portfolio Management reporting directly to the Executive Board at the group headquarters.

In 1998, he took on a new position as Managing Director of GlobeGround, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa with over 60 holding companies offering ground traffic services worldwide.

Dr. Hille has been Chairman of the Executive Board of Start Amadeus in Bad Homburg since October 2000.